Sheet-metal pocket tobacco-box.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK RUDOLPHI, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN CAN COMPANY,OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF YEW JERSEY.

SHEET-METAL POCKET TOBACCO-B OX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 27, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK RUDOLPHI, a citizen of the United States,residing in Chicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Sheet-Metal Pocket Tobacco-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvement-s in sheet metal pocket tobaccoboxes for tobacco and other articles.

My invention consists in a sheet metal pocket box having a body of long,narrow, wide form suitable for carrying in the pocket, and provided witha top head seamed or otherwise secured thereto, and having near one ofits ends a pouring opening, and a central longitudinal guide slot, and aclosure slide for said pouring opening provided with a raised guide andfinger piece projecting through the guide slot of the top head andclenched over the edges thereof to slidably connect the closure slidewith the top head, and at the same time afiord a finger hold orprojection for operating the inside fitting slide from the outside.

My invention further consists in the novel construction of parts anddevices, and in the novel combinations of parts and devices herein shownand described.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, Figure1 is a plan view of a sheet metal pocket tobacco box embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig.8 is a vertical cross section on line 33 of F 1. Fig. 4 is a horizontalsection on line 44 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail plan view of theclosure slide and Fig. 6 is a detial vertical cross section illustratinga modification in which the top head has a slip cover connection withthe body instead of being seamed thereto. Fig. 7 is a detail crosssectional view similar to Fig. 2, showing the top head and closure slideassembled, but before the upwardly projecting guide and finger piecebend in the closure slide is clenched or pressed down to secure theparts together.

In the drawing, 1 represents the sheet metal body'of my improved-tobaccobox, the same having an internally projecting lock side seam 2, andbeing of long, narrow,

Wide form with curved or rounded edge walls 3, 3 to adapt the box forpocket use.

4 is the bottom head of the box, it preferably having a countersunk wall5 fitting inside the body and secured thereto by a double or otherfolded sea-m 6. j

7 is the top head of the box, the same being either permanently orremovably secured to the body as may be preferred. It is furnished witha countersink wall 8 fitting inside the upper end of the body, and itmay be either permanently secured to the body by a double or otherfolded seam 9, as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3, or have a slip coverflange 10 surrounding and embracing the upper end of the body, asillustrated in Fig. 6 to removably secure it to the body.

The top head 7 has a pouring opening 11 near one end thereof, and acentral longitudinal rectangular guide slot 12 at its middle portion.The pouring openin 11 in the top head is closed by an inside fittingclosure slide 13, which is provided with an integral upwardly projectingguide and finger piece bend or member 14, having reverse folds orprojections 15 at the edges thereof to overlap and engage thelongitudinal edges 16 of the'guide slot 12 of the top head. The integralupwardly projecting bend 14 with the reverse folds 15 thereof at itsedges serves to very securely and snugly connect the closure slide withthe top head so as to produce a tight closure both of the pouringopening and of the guide slot in the top head, and at the same timeaffords a projection for engagement of the finger or thumb in openingand closing the slide 13. At the same time, both the top, head and theclosure slide are of exceedingly simple form, and capable of beingreadily assembled and'secured togethervby a simple clenching orcompressing operation on the upwardly projecting bend 14 of the closureslide after it is inserted through the guide slot of the top head.

I claim 1. A pocket tobacco box having a top head furnished with apouring opening at one end and a central longitudinal guide slot, of aninside fitting closure slide having an integral guide and finger piecebend inserted through the guide slot of the top head,

and provided with reverse folds at its edges 7 overlapping the edges ofthe guide slot and slot in the top head and furnished With reguide slot,substantially as specified.

together and afiord a finger hold for operating the slide, substantiallyas specified.

2. In a receptacle, the combination With a top head having a pouringopening and a \Vitnesses: guide slot, of a shde having an lntegral H. M.MUNDAY, bent portion pr0 ect1ng through the gulde i PEARL ABRAMS.

I the top head to slidably connect said parts verse folds overlappingthe edges of the 10 FRANK RUDOLPHI.

